The company is setting up a major robotics research centre in the UK.
Dyson is moving beyond vacuum cleaners and hand driers and will try to develop robots capable of helping with household chores.
The company has announced plans to create a major robotics centre at its facility at Hullavington Airfield, in Wiltshire, that will work on new types of domestic robot.Computer visionDyson says it is investing heavily in developing new technology - and half of the 2,000 people to have joined the company this year are engineers, scientists or coders.
It is also hiring robotics engineers across disciplines including computer vision, machine learning, sensors and "mechatronics". The company revealed glimpses of some of its work, in a video at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, in Philadelphia.Robot arms are briefly seen picking up plates, a bottle of detergent and a soft toy - but what kind of commercial devices this work might lead to is not revealed.
And some attempts to move into other areas have proved commercially unviable, most notably in 2019 when the company
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